The Sun. — London, England, 1838-12-20 00:00:00

PHUT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We perceive from a report of a meeting of the Work ing Man's Association, held on Tuesday night, at Ches ney's Rooms, Foley -street, contained in The Sun of yes terday, that Mr. Feargus O'Connor is resolved to give battle in the metropolis. " The Ifieekly Chronicle," he says, " edited by George Henry Ward, the Member for Sheffield, had the audacity to attempt to intimidate me, by telling me that the moment I came to a London meeting the police wcalid arrest me. lam here now, and I dare the police—. I defy the police—and I dare the masters of the police." After such a bravado it might have been expected that he would call on the working men to hold one of those meet ings by torch-light in the metropolis, for the legality of which he so stoutly contended, and the use of which he so significantly pointed out in Lancashire. But he is now all for moral force ; and he denounces the philosophical Ra dicals as the men who wish to have recourse to physical force : " A party," he says, have sprung up, calling them selves " Philosophical Radicals"— a party of men who, instead of assailing the strong.hold of corruption, would assail the tea-pot and the exciseman —(Laughter)—a party of men who speak of moral courage and denounce physical force. Why, they would be the first to use physical force, and to abstain from anything like a trial of moral exertion in this country. I have been denounced as a person who recommended physical force. I stand here before you, and if my life hung upon the lips of a judge, or upon the verdict of a jury of shopkeepers, if I had recommended phy sical force I would not retract the assertion. But during my whole existence—during my whole Radical career— I never, directly or indirectly, recommended physical force." We had no idea that Mr. Grote and his friends were such dangerous fellows. It might be prudent, after this warning, to have the Honourable Member for London searched when he presents himself in the House of Com mons in February next, lest he carry a dagger about him or some other lethal weapon But Mr. Feargus O'Connor, though he now denounces physical force, considers moral force of little worth—nothing without strong physical ac companiments. " I consider it moral force," he says, "to meet tlose men who are to carry the Radical petition to the House of Commons, four or five hundred thousand strong, marching down without arms in your hands, and sending your compliments into the House of Commons, to say that Mr. Attwood and Mr. Fielden are the bearers of a mess ige, and that you wait for a reply outside." This piece of swaggering exhibits a sad falling-off from the language held in Lancashire ; but it exhibits some tact. He compliments the Government on their kindness. " Lord Melbourne," he says, " puts clown our torch light meetings—When ? Not until he finds our party is about to be broken—not until the men of Edinburgh have treasonably come forward and denounced the principle they were the first to advoc_te. The very moment desertion takes place in the ranks, it is followed up by hostility on the part of all the press." Mr. Feargus O'Connor tells us his audience is not to be cast down at the apparent seces sion in Edinburgh : "We are all right in the north.—( Cheers.) Don't be afraid of two or three foolish men, with a parson at the bead of them—Dr. Brewster. I suppose Dr. Brewster one day or other, intends to be primate of the Radicals. He does not like the Church property to be meddled with, because he ex pects to have his share of it.—( Laughter.) Don't be alarmed about the state of feeling in Edinburgh, for I intend, with the blessing of God, to try the real feeling there, early next month.—(Cheers.) I am not to be frightened by those voices, though they may come thundering from the north. I am going to see in Dr. Brewster's own town, whether the real Radicals or the sham and philosophical Radicals' are the strongest party." Mr. O'Connor not only renounced physical force, but he read an edifying lecture on the importance of capital to labour, and professed as great a hatred of civil war as the Duke of Wellington himself has : " Why," he says, " do we ask for Universal Suffrage ? Why, that labour should be represented ; and if labour is represented, capital must, because without the employ ment of labour, capital would be of no use, and without the expenditure of capital labour would be of no use.--( Cheers.) I give you my advice : never, so long as you have a foot of moral resting ground, be misled by any man to enter into a civil war, for when it once commences, Gad only knows where it will end ; and the working classes, by going on in their undeviating course of assaulting by their moral power, will be able to affect all that is necessary f.:r themselves."—( Cheers. ) Feargus becomes quite edifying, and the adage is most assuredly falsified in him, that " Birds of a feather flock together ;" for he seems to have made choice of the Rev. Mr. Stephens and Mr. Oastler for his associates and col labaratcurs from pure abhorrence of the advice they give to the working classes. Was ever good man so calumniated as this Mr. Feargus O'Connor. Mr. Feargus O'Connor has profited by the lessons read to him at Edinburgh, Birmingham, and elsewhere. In fact the newspapers which the working classes most generally read disclaim on the part of the real Radicals all connection with the fire brands whose names have been so frequently before the public of late. The Sheffield Iris, for instance, answers for the working men of Sheffield:— " We wish," says that journal, " to remove the impression entirely from the mind of the timid, that the real Radicals, that is, the real Reformers, ever entertained the idea of resort ing to physical force so long as they had the powerful moral arguments to support the rights they now possess. Recent events in Lancashire render this step the more necessary on account of the prominent part the Rev. J. Stephens has acted in Radical demonstrations, and the influence he possesses among a large body of workmen in his own neighbourhood." ' The same journal observes, with regard to the torch light meetings : " It looks as if Englishmen were ashamed to meet under the broad canopy of heaven, to ask justice of their rulers, in the face of that sun which shines equally on the rich as on the poor, and sheds its cheering ray on the slave in his miserable d ungeon equa l ly as on the crowned tyrant on his luxurious couch. The sight is not more imposing at these torch-light meetings, nor are the proceedings more calculated to produce an impression, unless it be to strike ter ror into the more ti m id an d waver i ng spectators. What com parison is there between the unsteady flickering of a few torches scattered at intervals among a crowded assembly, throwing their dim light over their care-worn, toil-engrained faces, hardly sufficing to render darkness visible, and a meet ing of thousands in the broad day, responding with buoyant hearts to the sentiment, that ' Britons never shall be slaves' either to foes from abroad, nor to merciless task-masters at home." However, though Mr. Feargus O'Connor was last night quite smooth, some of the speakers who followed him were otherwise. A Mr. Parlow was quite astonished that the men of Scotland should find any language too strong, and hinted that moral force was very good as a precursor ; but though " good as the first step towards the success of their cause, it could not be rendered effective until the people were concentrated ;" and a Mr. Vincent was quite heroic, for— " When the grand national display would be made-- when the truly majestic banding of the people would take place--when their petition was spurned by the House of Commons, and when the Convention issued its proclamation, aye, its order, to its constituents, calling upon them to leave the anvil, the plough, and the loom—( Vehement cheering)--to stand as in the solemn stillness of the tomb, and to speak to the Government in the language of awful wattling, and tell them if they did not come down on their knees, and yield up peaceful possession of their rights, they would find that there was a point beyond which human endurance could not go—beyond which they could not remain quiescent —that they would suspend their work and never return until the whole of their privileges were granted."—( Much cheering.) Our readers will laugh at the device by which Mr. Feargus O'Connor proposes to elude the proclamation against torch light meetings : " I am going," he says, " to give Lord Melbourne something to do next month ; we shall hare a pretty new moon in January, and let us see if he will put out the moon.-4 Loud and long continued cheering.) Let us see if Daniel O'Connell, and his staff of P recursors, will come to his assistance, and go up to the man in the moon. Let us see what they will do when placed in this emergency, but don't you be afraid in London." We know not whether the Lancashire Liberals are suffi ciently moon -struck to follow this advice ; but in London it will literally be considered a matter of moonshine.— Morning Chronicle. We confess that the resu l t of yesterday's trial of the case in which this Journal was concerned has struck us with surprise, not unmixed with indignation. We will therefore abstain, at least at present, from any comment on the pro ceedings, the entire report of which we had not an oppor tunity of reading till a late hour last night. We shall con tent ourselves with referring our readers to the zealous, able, and 'manly address of the Attorney-General, and to that—what shall we call it—the summing up? No ; the zealous and hostile reply made by the Learned and Noble Chief Justice to the powerful speech of our distinguished advocate. From the Attorney-General's appeal we extract one powerful sentence, descriptive of the sort of process to which w e were yester d ay su bj ecte d— a process which made it a matter of impossibility for us to call a single witness in explanation or justification of the statement which we had published. Let our readers attentively peruse this short passage :—" But, gentlemen, I think that it is not credit..ble to the law that the truth should be excluded ; that a counsel for the prosecution, like my learned friend Mr. Thesiger, should find that the only question which a Jury has to determine is this—whether the publication contains a charge that is defamatory ; and that, although there might be witnesses to prove in every respect the truth of the allegations, even from the mouth of the pro secutor himself, still that it would be the duty of the Learned Judge to reject that evidence, and to say that he can only, when the case comes before a Jury, see whether the publication is brought home to the defendant, and whether it will bear the construction put on it by tLe prosecutor." Now read the defence of this sort of investi gation (?) put forth by the Lord Chief Justice. "In a proceeding by way of criminal information, the only questions which you, gentlemen of the jury, can have to determine, are these—the fact of publication, the identity pf the individual relerretl to, and the construction which , , the libel can fairly be considered to bear. The main ques tion, therefore, for you to consider on the present ocea , sion is, whether the libel before you carries with it the de , famatory charge of which the prosecutor complains. Had the present proceeding been one by way of indictment, the question of truth or falsehood must have been, from the very outset, altogether laid aside. Likewise in a case of criminal information a jury must leave the question of truth or falsehood equally out of view." His Lordship pro ceeds to state, that "at the preliminary stage of the , present proceeding, before it was ripe for the considera tion of a jury, the defendant might have offered evidence to the Court of Queen's Bench to show that the allegation of the prosecutor as to its falsehood was • without foundation." His Lordship must know that we had no such power. We could not compel an affidavit : we could not compel the attendance of a single witness, or examine one if he had attended in any stage of this monstrous proceeding by criminal information. We were by the very form of the process gagged and bound hand and foot. Our advocate alluded to two cases where the prosecutors, not availing themselves of the enormous powers granted by this anomalous form of action, came themselves into court and submitted themselves to the strictest examination on every point connected with the case in issue ; but Lord Denman, who was Counsel in one of those cases, and judge in the other, speaks of these frank and voluntary inquiries as " idle parade," and " mock issues." What ! Does his Lordship mean that any Judge would waste the time of the public by allowing two or three hours to be spent in any examination not sanctioned and required by the law ? Is it meant to be asserted that the trial in which the character of the Duke of Cumberland was so tri umphantly cleared was a mere farce—a Westminster play ? His Lordship cannot mean so ; he knows as well as we do that the inquiry on that occasion was legal, or he (as Judge) would not have allowed it—that it was of infinite importance, for it cleared beyond the possibility of future suspicion the innocence of the manly prosecutor. This trial we have published in another part of the paper. We conclude by stating that, on reading the charge of yester day, we were again and again seized with a fit of incre dulity as to the possibility of Lord Denman having lent his sanction to a form of trial in which, according to his own statement, " A JURY MUST LEAVE THE QUESTION OF TRUTH OR FALSEHOOD EQUALLY OUT OF YlEW."—Tinzes. Far be it from us to underrate the vast and incalculable evils, moral, religious, and social, to which such an altera tion must necessarily have led the way, or to depreciate the meritorious efforts which have been made to avert them. But we must express the confidence which after much reflection upon the subject, we sincerely entertain, that enough has been done to guard against these evils, in the expression, almost universal, of metropolitan opinion, that the delivery of letters in London on Sundays, or their receipt at the Post-office, for conveyance by the Sunday mail, would be a pernicious and irreligious alteration, and in the attestation which the loud and general expression of sentiment has called forth from the Queen's Government that it fully par takes in the feeling which pervades every class of society in the metropolis. In saying this we of course intimate our confident belief that the transmission of letters between the provinces on opposite sides of London without arresting them for twenty-four hours in that city, as they are now arrested, is quite compatible with the continued and undi minished observance of the Sabbath in the metropolis ; and our very decided opinion that this paramount object, with respect to London, being secured, the suggested im provement in the despatch of country letters is due, in strict justice, to our provincial fellow-subjects. It is said by some of those who advocate continued adherence to the pre sent very clumsy and absurd system, that if bags are to be made up at the Post-office for the country towns on a Sunday, it will be impossible to leave out of them what ever letters the people in London may choose to send. We do not very clearly see how this is to be made out. How does the opening of the country bags and the sorting of those parts of their contents which are to go forward involve the necessity of receiving and forwarding London letters ? The whole business of opening and sort ing the country bags may easily be completed on a Sunday morning, and every clerk and officer employed in the busi ness have returned to his own home by the usual breakfast time of the inhabitants of the metropolis. All the duty that would remain to be done after this would be keeping the letters safe, which we suppose is not now neglected, and delivering their respective bags to the guards of the different mail-coaches. The clerks employed may, perhaps —although this, if it were thought worth while, might easily be guarded against—smuggle in a Len der' letter now and then, upon an emergency, and for a gratuity. But the same thing in substance, and to an equal extent, is done at present ; for anybody can now get letters conveyed to the remotest extremities of the three kingdoms, by the Sunday night mails, who will take the trouble or incur the expense of sending them by a special messenger to the post towns at ten or twelve miles distance from London. And is it not unjust, palpably and absurdly unjust, to the inhabitants of Norwich and of Bris tol, and of many hundred other considerable towns, whose reciprocal letters pass through London, that their means of intercommunication shall be interrupted one day in every week, not on account of enforcing the observance of the Sabbath in respect to themselves, or the society with which they have to do, for this is totally, and, as we think, scan dalously neglected, but for sake of the London Sunday, which after all derives no advantage from the embargo thus inflicted on the provinces ? We men of London are apt to be righteous not over much, but in the wrong form and place, and spirit. To make amends for our own personal violations of the Sabbath, we seem willing enough to sanctify the Sabbath vicariously with the additional blunder of making our substitutes keep it on any day but the right. We write letters without the least scruple or reserve on the Fridays and Saturdays to the men of Bath, and Bristol, and Norwich, and Liverpool, and Leeds, and Manchester, and Newcastle, and Edinburgh, and Glasgow, &c. &c. &c., and receive them from the same quarters on the Mondays and the Tuesdays, just as if we did not know that the l e tt ers we so wr ite and so receive must reach their destination or have departed from their source on the Sunday. And while we do this we insist wpon it that the Government is bound by its Christian duty to assist us in compelling the men of Bath, and Bristol, and Norwich, and Liverpool, and Manchester, and Leeds, and Newcastle, and Edinburgh, and Glasgow, to keep our Sab bath, by its partial observance, not on the Sunday—for we care, or seem to care, nothing whatever about the day— but on the Friday or the Saturday, the Monday or the Tuesday, according to the distance from town of the pl ace where our L on d on Sabbath-keeping is thus to be assisted. But this is not the most ridiculous part of our vicarious metropolitan Sabbath observance. We, in London, having a right to say that we will not receive letters on the Sun day, say rightly, by implication, to the men of Bath, that they need not write them on the Saturday, and to the men of Edinburgh, that they need not write them on the Fri day. But, as between the men of Edinburgh and the men of Bath, what right have we to say to them that they shall not write to each other on the Fridays or the Satur days, or receive letters from each other on the Mon days or the Tuesdays ? This is what we really say to our provincial fellow-subjects, not promoting thereby the observance of the Sabbath, or anything else that is good, but exhibiting merely a very egregious specimen of metropolitan tyranny and folly. Why do not the religious people of the metropolis exert themselves, in conjunction with the religious portion of the inhabitants of our provin cial towns, to secure fbr the Sabbath of the latter the same immunity from Post-office desecration and disturbance which London happily enjoys? In such exertions we might recognise the character of wisdom, benevolence, and genuine piety ; while in those which, whatever may be their design, are effectual chiefly to prevent the writing of letters on the Fridays and Saturdays and the receipt of letters on Mondays and Tuesdays throughout the greater part of England, we confess our inability to discover any thing but an arbitrary and silly disposition to impede the useful and genial intercourse of commerce, literature, and affection.—Morning Post. CHILDREN'S HAIR.--This is a subject upon which mothers naturally feel deeply interested. The hair, like the human mind, requires early attention to its culture to ar rive at future excellence. This fact, Mr. Rowland, of Hat ton-garden, clearly makes evident in his Pamphlet on the Hair, which has already gone through thirty-one editions, and is given (gratuitously), with each bottle of ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL. Mr. Rowland lays down the following advic e in reference to Children's Hair. " When the hair first begin s to appear, the head should never be touched ttweinthdear,figniNese.tooth comb, as it ren d ers t h e s ki n extreme l y great pain to the infant, and raises the dandrf o to hissuc an alarming degree, a s ren d ers i t a l most i mposs ibl e be persed. Instead of using combs, apply a flannel dipped in the MACASSAR OIL, which, when rubbed in for a short time, will eradicate dirt, remove the scurf, and render the hair beautiful." ANOTHER BRUTAL day, and after our summary bad been put in type , we received the d State of the Country f IVIURDER.—Late in the thatae , O a h l e t F t r e i r d faryo mevening t hal re spectableen correspondent, informing us , arien-thaker on the estate of man named Boland road, en of some The unfortunate Ennis, was brutally murdered t w e n h t e i ! n h t e o r they unfortunate man went to his door to in r is o c i per sons whom he heard speaking on the was crossi ng had seen some carmen of his whom he haci no s Ath lone. On being informed that they had then, Boland returned to his house, and just as he the threshold of his door, a gun was discharged was a a a t s hh h o im t , the . contents of which entered his body, and he stantly a corpse. Boland had received several threatening notices within the last month,—Dublin Mail. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1838. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (Pito3l THE MOHNINIS PAPERS OP THIS DAT.) HERALD.—The address of the King of the French, upon the opening of the Chambers, though considered to be a matter of some interest, has not produced that excite ment here, nor has it even acquired that importance which many anticipated. A great portion of it has been recognised as being highly tinctured with that guarded policy for which Louis Philippe has always been distin guished. That portion of his Speech relating to the civil war in Spain has been considered to be very equivocal, and had the effect of rather damping the market for Spanish Bonds, which another circumstance, to which we shall re fer, may have also somewhat contributed. That part of this inaugural address of the King of the French which re fers to the disputes between Belgium and Holland has by some been considered very favourable,,and has caused the Dutch Funds to improve ; whilst the importance of the whole Speech in the public opinion of the City may be mea sured by the fact, that it has not had the slightest influence upon the British Funds. A deputation of the holders of Spanish Bondi had an in terview with Lord Melbourne to-day, with the object of pressing upon his Lordship's notice the importance of sup pressing the civil war in Spain, and securing the interests of the public creditors of that country. The reply of his Lordship was rather vague, inasmuch as little more was said than that the Government had not lost sight of the im portance of the question mooted. Therefore, as we have before stated, the distant prospect that the creditors of Spain have of their claims being settled has again tended to depreciate the market value of those precious securities. An erroneous opinion has obtained amongst some par ties that money has become rather scarce ; with a view to remove an incorrect impression we have made inqui ries which sufficiently established the truth of our late st itements upon that subject. We also understand that, although the Bank of England has not been called upon to make heavy advances upon Exchequer Bills or India Bonds, it is sufficiently accounted for by the surplus of capital in the I aids of our mercantile interests, who have been thus anxious to employ it temporarily at the small rate of interest which Exchequer Bills bear. With some there is an impression that large amounts of gold are in the course of shipment to the continent, where, however, it is not wanted ; the greater portion of the ship ments which have lately been made having been in silver, and that chiefly to the Dutch and German cities, simply, because the operation is a more profitable one than sending either hills or gold at present. It is, however, almost need less to remark that the statements of some of our Contern poraries, respecting the intended dealings of the Bank in Exchequer Bills by way of loan, or the present course of exportation of the precioui metals, can, taking into consi deration the large amount of bullion now held by the Bank Corporation, affect that institution, even if it were carried on to a much greater extent, for a considerable time ; and the same observation, we believe, will be found to apply cor rectly to all the joint-stock banks of England and Ireland which are properly conducted. There has not been any speculation in the British Funds to-day, and the market has closed this afternoon with scarcely any alteration from the quotations of last evening. Consols still continue at 934 to 93 ; 1 ; the Three-and-a- Half per Cent. Reduced Annuities are 1001 to 1001 Money, and the New Three-and-a- HaT per Cents. 101 for the opening ; the premium upon Exchequer Bills rules at 62 to 64 ; and India Bonds at 61 to 63. The Foreign Market continues dull, and the Peninsular, as also as the Transatlantic Bonds, have closed at slightly lower rates. - Spanish Bonds, with the May Coupons, arc 164 ; Passive are 3! ; and Deferred 7 ; Portuguese New Five per Cent. Bonds have receded to 28i to 28i ; and the Three per Cents. ditto to 18! to 18i ; Brazilian Bonds are 77k 1 to 774 . ; Colombian ar e 251 ; an d M ex i can 224 ; Danish Bonds are 74E; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 544 to 54,-1 ; the Old Five per Cents., 1004, and the New Loan are 99k. The Share Market has not manifested any symptoms of improvement. Great Western Railway are 101 to II pr, to, ; Blackwall are 2f to 23 dis. ; Croydon ..re 4 dis., and the New Scrip k prem. ; North Midland are at par. ; Anti-Dry Rot Registered Shares are 101 dis., and the Scrip 131 dis. ; Bahia Steam Shares are dis. ; British North American Shares are 24 prem., and those of the Union Bank of Australia are 41 to 41 prem. POST.—A deputation of persons went up from the City to-day to lay before her Majesty's Ministers the me morial on Spanish affairs to which we lately made allusion. It turns out, as we had suspected it would from the first, that the memorial originated with tha poor defrauded bondholdhers ; and this being perceived by Lord Melbourne, little time was lost in giving the deputation their answer. A promise that the matter referred to in the document " should not be lost sight of" was, we are told, all that could be exacte I from his Lordship. The case of the jobbers, who can obtain but 16 per cent. for a Spanish bond for which they may possibly have given 72, is certainly a cruel one, but we do not see how it can serve them to mix up their pecuniary claims, as they seem to have done in the present instance, with a call on Government to put a stop to the civil war in Spain on the score of humanity simply. They might have known very well beforehand that such a manceuvre, if detected, was sure to end in failure. CHRONICLE.—There has been a further depression in the premium on Exchequer Bills, and the market is altogether heavy ; not arising, however, from the circum stance of some erroneously filled-up Exchequer Bills hav ing been discovered to be in circulation, evidently the result of mistake, but from the fact that the Directors of the Balk of England, pursuing their usual course of one moment extending their accommodations and then as suddenly contracting their discounts, are endeavouring to put on the screw, as it is technically termed, with a view of rendering money scarce, We have been aware of this circumstance for a day or two, but have refrained from alluding to it, being desirous previously of obtaining some information on the subject of a very particular and most important nature ; and as we are still in hopes of being suc cessful, we shall again delay detailed remarks. The last quotation of Exchequer Bills was 625. to 645. prem. Con sols remain at 934 to for the opening without any parti cular feature. No effect whatever has been produced upon Dutch or Belgian securities by the speech of the King of the French on opening the Chambers, nor, indeed, has it attracted any interest in the City. SUMMONING THE QUEEN.—On Monday, as the new police van drove into the yard of the Queen -square Police office, Stowell, the notorious informer, ordered the driver to stop. The van at this office has only been in operation for three or four days, and the police constable who drove it refused to draw up. The informer then pro duced from under his arm a large quarto volume, contain ing statutes of every description, and pointed out to the astonishment of the constable, the Act sth and 6th of Wil liam IV., cap. 50, by which he was in the first instance em powered to lay an information against the proprietor, driver, or conductor of any " carriage, van, or other vehicle" upon which the name and address of the owner did not appear in legible characters. There were only painted upon this vehicle the letters V. It. ; and Stowell, after producing the Act, plainly told the driver that, unless be immediately told him his name, he should give him into the custody of one of his brother policemen. Stowell had had informations against the present King of Hanover, Lord Melbourne, &c., in which he had obtained convictions ; and he did not see wby the Queen should be spared. The driver gave the name of Charles Smith, 96 A division ; and the informer, after detaining the van for about a quarter of an hour, ap plied for a summons, which was granted by Mr. Gregoric, the sitfrig Magistrate. The charge was to be heard to-day. In the course of a case which was tried on Monday at Guildhall, where a butcher, named Matthews, had de tected the dishonesty of two servants by sending per sons to the shop to purchase articles with marked money, Sir Peter Laurie observed that scarcely a day passed that a servant was not charged at a police-office with embezzle ment, and it seemed to be an increasing crime. It was an offence easily committed, and with the new facilities of railroads to the coast, and steam-boats to America and France, the terror of the law ceased to deter those who harboured criminal intentions. The leniency of the punish ments inflicted for this offence of late, also perhaps tended to multiply the instances. He knew that a great many eases of embezzlement were detected, and the servants turned away without being brought before the Magis trates at all. Ile commended the course taken by Mr. Matthews to detect his servants, and he wished all servants would take warning that the next customers they may serve may be sent with marked money to make the pur chase. This expedient was perfectly justifiable. On Sunday afternoon two gentlemen were walking in the inclosure of St. James's Park, when one of them un dertook for a trifling wager to swim across the ornamental water attired as he was. The gentleman had progressed about half way, when he was observed to sink ; a boat was immediately put off, and he was taken out of the water in a state of insensibility and conveyed to the A division station-house, Gardner's-lane, where restoratives were im mediately administered, and in the course of two hours he was so far recovered as to walk home. On Saturday afternoon a labourer named John Chinch, who has been for some time employed on the Eastern Counties Railway at Old Ford, was at work on the line, when he observed four waggons corning at a ra pid rate towards him, each of which contained upwards of a ton of earth. In his confusion to get out of they way he was knocked down, and the whole of the waggons passed over his left leg, which was mangled in a frightful man ner. He was conveyed to the London Hospital, where he lingered in great agony until three o'clock oq Sunday morning, when death terminated his sufferings. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 19. MAGNAY V. KNIGHT. This was an action to recover compensation for services rendered to the defendant. The plaintiff, Mr. Frederipk Magnay, was the brother of the Alderman, and the defendant was a publisher. The ac tion was brought to recover 1901„ the balance of two years' salary, 5001., which the plaintiff alleged to be due to him, in his capacity of clerk to defendant. It appeared that in May, 1834, there was a negotiation between the defendant and Al derman Magnay, with a view to their entering into partner ship ; but no agreement was made. However, in the deed of partnership which was drawn up, there was a stipulation that the plaintiff should at first become a clerk in defendant's house, at a salary of 250/. ; but that ultimately he should be admitted into partnership. That deed was never executed ; but the plaintiff was taken into defendant's service as a clerk, and was employed at different times in the capacities of clerk, cashier, and traveller. On. the part of the plaintiff a conver sation was given in evidence, which took place in July 1835, and in the course of which the defendant mentioned 2501. per annum as the salary which he would agree to give the plaintiff, and Alderman Magnay and the plaintiff a,sented to that proposal. Up to that time there had be n no agree ment as to salary, and it was contended, on the part of the plaintiff, that the agreement then made was to apply to the antecedent period of service ; whilst, on the part of the defendant it was urged that, at all events, it would only operate prospectively. The defendant's witnesses proved that 1001. per year was a reasonable and proper salary for a person in the capacity of traveller to an establishment like the defendant's. The LOUD CHIEF JUSTICE left it to the jury to express their belief as to the nature of the agreement between these parties. The Jury, after a short deliberation, found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, 1701. BOSWELL AND ANOTHE R V. ROTCII AND OTHERS. This was an action for work and labour and goods sup plied, brought by the firm of Sarah and William Boswell, coachbuilders, and four others, as the Directors of a Com pany established in October, 1836, and called " The Single horse Safety Conveyance Company." It appeared that one of the plaintiffs, W. Boswell, had m ide a tender to the Company in regard to the building of food and commodious cabs for the purposes of the Com pany ; that he attended several. meetings of the Board of Directors, received orders, which he executed, and that he had delivered to the Company, in compliance with these orders, or proceeded with the building of as many as twenty seven cabs. In respect of that work the present action was brought. The plaintiff himself became a shareholder in this Company, which lasted for about one year, and the main ground of defence was, that there was in the deed by which the Company was established, and which the plain tiff had signed, a clause especially providing that no share holder should be liable, under any contract entered into on the part of the Company, to a greater amount than his own share. The question of the defendants' liability turned upon the construction of that deed, end the only remaining question was as to the amount of damages. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE suggested the propriety of a reference ; and both parties consented to refer all the ques- 1 tions of fact, the arbitrator being instructed to raise upon his award the legal questions which were to be discussed in the Court above. A verdict was taken for the plaintiff for the full amount, subject to that arrangement. ADMIRALTY COUR7'.—D.sc. 19. THE EMU-SALVAGE. This is a suit for compensation for salvage-services al leged to have been performed by a steam-tug, the Sit Robot Hawkes, the property of the Steam Towing Com pany, to ttie vessel, the Emu. The latter ship, of 381 tons burthen, on a voyage from Van Diemen's Land to the port of London, having got, through the fault of her pilot, on the Maitland Sands, near the Nore, on the 15th of July last, was come up to by the steam-vessel, who waited with her during the night of the 15th, got her off at about seven o'clock on the following morning, and towed her up to London. The steamer is a tug in the service of the Yarmouth Mackerel Company, engaged to tow the mackerel cutters belonging to that Company to London, and it is asserted that in consequence of the performance of the present service she was unable to perform her usual duty, that the fish arrived too late for the London market, and a loss, on that account, to the amount of 1001. is asserted to have taken place. The value of the ship and cargo, which consisted of cotton and of other colonial produce, is esti mated at 11,9701. It is a matter of dispute between the par ties whether the services of the alleged salvors were ac cepted by the Master of the Ship. A. tender of 2001. for the salvage, and of an additional 201. for the towing, has b..en offered and rejected. The action has been entered at 1,500/. Her MAJESTY'S ADVOCATE (with whom was Dr. GOST LING) appeared on behalf of the salvors, and contended that the situation of the vessel, which was of high value, was dangerous—the services were most important, and ren dered with alacrity and skill. Considerable loss had been sustained by the late arrival of the mackarel cutters for the London market, and reparation for this ought to be made. The tender was insufficient. Drs. ADDAM S and BLAKE were heard contra. The Learned JUDGE said that, under the circumstances, the loss could not be attributed to the performance of the salvage service. Looking at all the facts of the case, the Court was of opinion that the tender was sufficient. The Learned Judge, in the present instance, though in future cases he would follow a different rule, would make no order as to costs. CR IMINAL COURT-WEDNESDAY. OLD COURT. Hannah, alias Ann, Herbert, was indicted was having forged an acceptance to a bill of exchange for 2301., with intent to defraud Lady Mary Wood. The prisoner was also indicted on another count for having on the 2d Dec. last uttered the said forged acceptance. The case has recently been before the public from the Marylebone police office. The prisoner having called some witnesses in proof of her forme r good character, Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE addressed the Jury, who re turned a verdict of Guilty on the second count of the in dictment, but strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy. NEW COURT. At four o'clock the Grand Jury came into Court with a great number of bills for felony, and three of them, con taining several yards of parchment, against John Hannon, indicted for " having in his possession a plate, upon which was engraved a note of the bank of Upper Canada, at To ronto." William Smith, a respectable-looking young man, was in dicted for stealing, on the 12th inst., 3s. from the person of Wm. Griffiths. After a long trial the prisoner was honourably acquitted, IDDLESEX SESSIONS, DEC. 19. THE GENERAL CEMETERY COMPANY V. THE POOR-RATE► OF ST. MARY ABBOTTS, KENSINGTON. This was an appeal by the proprietors of the General Ce metery at Kensall-green, in the Harrow-road, against the poor-rate assessment of the parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington. Mr. ADOLPHUS stated that the cemetery ocupied an ex tent of fifty-four acres, of which the gross rental was esti mated by the respondents at 2,4654, and the assessment was upon a rental of 2,0001. Until within the last year, when the assessment under the new Act was made, the rental had only been estimated at 350/., and he submitted that the increase in the amount was far too great, and that the estimated rental and assessment thereon was far beyond what the Company ought to be called on to pay. The Learned Counsel then called Mr. Bowman, the clerk to the Company, who produced an account of the annual receipts and expenditure of the Company, from which it appeared that the balance in favour of the Company, after paying all the necessary expenses, was 4 0 41. 18s., and that 201. was received for a portion of the land which was not consecrated, making altogether 444/. 18s. Mr. PRENDERGAST having been heard in support of the rule, • The Couta ordered it to be amended by altering it from 2,000/. to 4441. 18s. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, AssiTRANcE coAPANIEs,&c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC 18. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Shire 1,766 7 pei cent. Ashton and Oldham-Average 97/. 18s. sh. 135 ~082 41. Ashity-de-le-Zoticit • Average 1161. sh. 73 1,260 Basingstoke 10(31. sh . 1,1)05 5/, Brecknock and Ahergavenny 150.. sh. 8,000 1 -I6sh. 91 6s. Birmingham, I-16th share 641. & 711. 1 OM) Ditto and Liverpool Juliet...P..7 sh. 100 pd 600 :3/. Bridgewater and Taunton -.ION sh. all pd 400 41. Ch ',Amer and Biackwater IOW. sh. 500 481. Civentry ' ON. s h. 4,545 Croydon . A veras., , s , 31/.2s led. sh. 2,060 f 41. Os. Dudley lOO/.6h. 11: 11) 14, Derby Rd. sh . 10,000 4 per cent, Dantwe and Mayne 4ll. I:3s. 4d .pd 3,575 f 31. Ellesmere and Chester Xverage 1:331.51.t. Z 1 621. Erewash 'OOl. sit.' 1,297 28/. Forth and Clyde Average 440/.165. tit. 1,600 12/, Grand Junction lOl. sh. 2,849 f . 1/. Grand Union ii 3 Oi.sh 11.500 Grand Surrey ......... ~.. 0,0001. 4/, percent. Ditto (optional) Loan lO9/. 3 096 Grand Western 63)0 131.125. 2d. Glamorganshire, Average cost 1721. 13s. Id, 749 101. Grantham 150/. sh. 6,238 21. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. 6s. (id. sin 100 Kensington 100 ;h all pd. c.32S 11. ss. Kennet nd Avon, Average 391. 18s. 10d. sh 2,497; 211. Leeds and Liverpool i 0 , 1. sh. 545; 13/. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 1,897 61. Os. Leicester ansi Northampton... Aver 43/. 10s. 2.400 10/. Monmouthshire 100/ .sh. 150 10/, Melton Mowbray 'OO/. eh. 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell lOW. sh. 3.0 A 11. 10s. Macclesfield 100/. sh all pd. 217 171. Neath 'isiLsh. 2,100 5 /- Peak Forest A vetage about 781. sh. 1,118 lie. Regent's or L onion) Aver. 33/. 163 i.id. sh 5,609 61. per (eta. Ivor:NI:0e Average 83/. sh. 500 8/. `,iirepshire 1251. sh. 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 1501. sh. 3,600/. 4i per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester lv/. sh. 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 300 9/. Stourbridge 3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on. Avon ...A.verage 791. 9s. isi. sh. 533 15/. Swansea I GO/. sin 3,762 11. 15$. Severn and Wye :old Railway... Av. 351. sh. 2 60 Ist, 321. 10s. Treat and Mersey, I share l's)l. oh. 8,149 ..... .... Thames and Medway...Aver. 191. ss. aid. sh. 1,0005h.1 , 1. Warwick a.id Birmingham lOO/.sh I,ooofsh,i ."' 930 15s. Warwick and Napten lOOl. sh. 6,000 4/. Os. N'Corcester and Birmingham...A v. 781. Hs. oh 5,000 255. Wilts and Berks .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. t3OO 31. W yrley and Essington 195/. oh 126 Wisheach 90s la. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. DOCKS. ,600 & ? 1,0651 , h j 3p. c Commercial .,'001. sh. East and West India Stock 3,238,310 f/. 555. p. ct. London Stock Ditto Bonds 2,209 2/. 19s. Bristol 68,324/. Si. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1,352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 50(1,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 1.500 . .... Deptford Pier 201. sh. 20/. pd BRIDGES. 1,600 10s. Hammersm it: 5O/. sh., 7,231 Southwark, Old 1,700 1/. Iss, Ditto, New, of 7-.1 r cent. 5Ol. sh. 5,000 ... ...... Waterloo ... lOO/ sh. 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6O/. pd 5,000 I6s. 4cl„ Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 00,000/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,848 17s Vauxhall Av"rage 701. 10s. 3d. oh. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 31103 Albion... 500/. sh. 50/. pd 50,000 f S L , c i e , n s l Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 101/. pd 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 51. pd 24,000 fl per sh. Atlas 5O/. sh. 51. pd I,2oofsh. 5/. Birmingham 1' ire 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 504, sh. 5/. pd 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medi al,&c. Life, ICOL sh. 2/10s pd 4,000 2/ lOs County 1001. sh. 101. pd 20,000 _ ss. _ Eagle ~,, r 5 per cent. Economic late / 1000/. sh. 250!. pd 375 tand 301 bs.) nom 2,271 225. per cent. European Li , • °W. sh. all pci 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 21. pd 11 1,000,000/. 71. per ct Globe Stock 146+ 20,000 51 . Guardian lOO/. sh. 2741 pd 354 40,000 6s. (id. Hope 501. sh. 51. pd 51 2,400 Si. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001 sh. 50/. pd 130 7,500 9s. Imperial Late 1001. sh. 10/. pd 10/ 13,158 4/. per cent. Indemnity Bhrine 1 , 0/. oh. 81. p 2 23 2,020 31 IN Kent Fire 501. sh. all pd 82 31. Ditto Life 7l, 10, 0 00 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 33 5,000 10s. London, Fir.! 25/ sh. 121. 103. p 2 10 3,900 10s. London, Ship 25/. sh. 12/. 10s. pd lti 4000,000/. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh. 30,0110 fa. per cent. Palladium Lite 50/. sh. 2/. pd 218 s Od 50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fite 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 16, 00 2,500 1/. Provident L 1 1e lOO/. sh. 101. pd 20 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. I!. pd 9 649,2201 5/. per cent. Royal Exch..uge Stock... 2251 6,000 5 per cent. University Lite ION. sh. 5!. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 71 JOINT STOCK BANKS 25,000 8 percent, A gric. and Comm. of Ireland 25!. sh. 101. pd 5,000 A ustralaQia 4O/. sh. 401. pd 671 10,./1111 10 per cent. Bank of Bii mingham sfl. sh. 10/. pd 13 .0,000 IA per cent. Birmingham Bank ..... ....... -50/. sh. 5/. pd 19 31,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster-100/ sh. 20/. pd 2:34 61',001 5/. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 101. pd 13 .s,OOO 4 per cent. Lancaster........ ......... .... ...... 1001. eh. till. pd 50 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 231 100,000 71 per cent Manchester and Liverpool/ 501. sh. 151 pd 20 Distrktt 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25! pd 27 20,000 Provincial Bank of Ireland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 45 1:0, GO ... ...... National Bank of Ireland 5“l. sh 171/. pd 17 10,00(1 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. IOU sh. 351. pd 31 19,000 Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 10/. pd 2( 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 501. sh. 5!. pd ! GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1/ Os Od Bath 2Ol. sh. 161. pd 2 5,000 British 4O/. sh. 16/. pd 2 5 .( 1 00 [ sl ‘ ..; a In7 . 1 ( 11 . 1 Ditto Provincial 20/, sh. 19 pi 2 928 5/ lOs Birmingham 5O/. sh. I 1,250 21 Os Bristol 2o'. sh. : 1,500 3/ lOs Brighton 2O/. sh. 750 31 IN Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 18/. lid 2,471 44 per cent. Brignton Genera) 20/. sh. all pd 4,000 5/. Continental Consolidated 1,000 10/. City of London .................100/. sh. all pd 1 1,000 61. Ditto, New 1,000 41. 10s. Equitable 5O/. pd 10,000 21 per cent. Imperial 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 201. p 0 2,350 61. per cent. Independent lO/. sh. all pd 9,000 31. per cent. Phcenix .. 5O/. sh. 391. pel 1,000 4/, per cent. Ratcliff 100/. sh. 801. pd 4 , 00 0 South Metropolitan 5O/. sh. 19/. pd 8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 46/. pd 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 4(10 5/. per cent Wakefield 2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered ...... ... 5O/. sh. 0,000 12s. Ditto N ew .si/. oh. 104 pd 860 Yarmouth 201. sh. 191. pd - WATER WORKS. 1,800 9s. Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/ pd 9,434 61. East London lOO/. sh. 5,500 21 10s Grand Junction ....Average 41/. 13s. 4d. sh. 2,000 2/. Kent lOO /.sh. 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 1,500 2/ IN New River London Bridge WaterAnnui tics 6,486 1/ 15s Blanchester and Salford lOO/ sh 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 8,294 41. West Middlesex ....Average 631. 12s. 92. sh. 1,360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 0,300 ...... ... Birmingham and Derby 5O!. pd 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 15,.0 0 Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 0 pd 660 Calcutta and Saugur 5Ol. sh. 2/. pd 7,500 Cheltenham and G.Western 1001. sh. 20/. 3,008 ...... ... Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001 pd 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. Si. pd 60,000 Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 10/ pd Grand Junction 1001. sh. 95/. p i Great North of England 30% pd 5,030 Great Western lOO/ sh. 65/. pd 2,000 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001. pd 8,000 Hull and selby 501. sh. 204 pil 10,009 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 2,100 31. per cent. Leeds and Selby. .... lOO sh. 1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington ....50/. sh. all pd 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester-10(1.O. 100/. pd 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 36,000 ......... London and Brighten 5O/. sh. 14/ pd 12,000 London and Blackwall 501. sh 31. pd 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich O4 sls. 20/. pd 25,000 London and Birmingham ...1001. sh. 90/. pd Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. pd ...... ... London and Southampton -.50/. sh. 591. pd ...... ... Ditto ditto New 1,000 Lond on and Croydon Trunk 20/ sh. 20/. pd 6,000 Ditto New Scrip 12,000 London Grand Junction 501. sh. 5/. pd 13,000 ......... Manchester and Leeds lOO/. sh. 501. pd 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham - 10/.sh. 101. pd North Midland 1001. sh. 551. pd Northe-n and Easter:ll 1001. sh. 15/. pd 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 3t'/. pd 18,000 South Eastern and Dover . 91. pd 1,000 18/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOU sh. 9,000 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 50!. sh. 2/. pd 6,000 York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 12/. pd MINES. 20,000 10f 55 8 361 47 240- 8,000 Albion Copper W. sh. 3jl. pd 4,000 IL ss. A lten 151. sh. 121. lOs pd 10,000 ... DittG Subscription 9.51. pa 2,000 101. Bol dnos l5O/. s h all pd 10,000 IL 10s Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. rim '35/. sh. 20!. pd 6,000 Macaubas & Cocaes United 251. sh. 2:4. pd 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey .201. sh. In , pd 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company, 201. sh. '2Ol. pd 10,000 ...-... Ditto Scrip._ lO/. sh. 10/. rid iO,OOO British Iron 5O/. sh. 50/ pd 6,000 .... ..... British Copper 5l. sh. 41/. pd Cata Branca.... 61/. i d . Candonga 73/. pd 10,000 11 Copiapo '2Ol. sh, 13/. pd 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 51. pm. 2,850 3!. English 20,000 General Mining Assoclation...2ol. sh. 171. pd 6,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 5514 pd 3,000 Polberou Consols. lOl. sh 81. pd 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2pm -.40/. &h. all pd Ditri, Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd West Cork 50/ sh. 50/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. 1,500 London University 100/. sh. all pd 700 King' College 100/. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural....lool. sh. 2(1!. pd 6,000 41. per cent. British American Land Company 23/. pd 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 301. pd 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Cana 4a Loan City Bond St s, 4 cnt 20,000 11. 6s. General eam per Navi e gation ...151. sh. 141. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 IL London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. 8,000 Caoutchouc Company: 121/. p d 500,000/ New Brunswick Land Company 501. pd 2,751 51. per cent. Reversionary InterestSoc...loo/. sh. 100/. pd 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 75/. pd 4,000 10,000 6s. Van Die ner.'s Land 1001. sh. 171. pd 46 11 29 99 1001 23 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, NOV. 1, 1838. BANKS. 4500,0011. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland S 3/. 6s Bd. Ah, all pd MN. 2,000,0X1. 54 p. et. RI yal of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 15i2/, 500,010/. Bp. ct. Briush Linen Company 1001. sh. all pd 240/. 3,000,0064 6/. p. et. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 1761. 5.,100,tX10,.. .-. ... ct. National lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 1614 2,00 0 ,0001. 61. p. et. Glasgow Union 250!. sh. 50/. pd 85/. t,000,0(01. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 40/. pd 501. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 25 1 ,000 sh 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 2Ol. sh. 11. pd 30s ,500 14 p. ct. Hercules 100/. sh. 10/. pc4 141. Os. 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....10/. sh. all pd 91. 10s. 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 19 . 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 20/. Os 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 101. lit/ 1 4 / 1 0s 100,000 al p. ct. West of Scotland ___.,, 101. pd !7t Qs POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 111ANSION-HOUSE. A woman named Ward was b roug h t b e f ore the LORD MAYOR, charged with having d e f rau d e d a housekeeper at chambers in the vicinity of London Bridge, of the sum of 7s. 6d., by means of a false parcel. She was remanded. MARLBOROUGFI-STREET. Michael Cannavan was yesterday brought before Mr. DYER, charged, on his own confession, with being a thief. He was remanded for further inquiry. Omrims CASE.—The driver of one of the London Conveyance Company's omnibu ses was summoned by the driver of one of Bardell's Paddington omnibuses, for damaged his v e hi c l e. having wilfully Mr. DYER awarded the amount, of the damage done, and imposed a penalty of 20s. W OR &HIP- STREET. THE PISTOL Lew.—William Carter, a groom in the employ of Mr. Small, a gentleman lately residing at Lee Bridge, was brought up for re-examination, charged with firing a loaded pistol at J. P. Smith, clerk to Mr. Hard man, solicitor, of Broad -street. The particulars have al ready appeared. The prisoner was remanded till Saturday. MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 ......... Eclin7;iid (4TaTs: Un. Cana1...501. sh. all pd 101. Ditto Allocated 961. sh. all pd 50 / 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Wat e r .... 25 1. sh. all pd 341 1 Carron Iron Company 2501. sh. all pd 441 . 410 15 per cent. Shotl a Iron Foundery 501 . sh 4 4 4 p c ] NI . iO,OOll :I per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2O/. sh. 164 pd gi 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas '251. sh. all pd 6111. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 254 sh. all pd 561. 750 7# pee cent. Leith Coal Gas 201.8 h. all pd 501 . N_o Edinburgh sud Dalkeith Ral!way..,so/ sh 38/ . . 8.000 5 per cent. Equttabre.Loan company,osi.sh.pn oh 114 Son 71 75 Mr. WHITE inquired whether the meins taken had been effectual in discovering how the priwner gained admisst oo to the Palace. Cox, the night porter at the equerry's entrance, observe d that he had made the strictest i nqu i r i es . N o p a ins 135 a beeen spared to ascertain that most important point, bu t , without success. His door w a s lo c k e d, an d w itness ha d the key in his pocket, therefore it would have been 101- po,sible for the prisoner to have made his escape that waY , although, when he looked into the room, he ev.dently roc' ditated it. Mr. Steed, an inspector of the A division, said there wa s sufficient space under the entrance g a t es of the marble archway fn. a boy of the prisoner's size to have pass ed under. He observed that there was a quantity of fresh loam or gravel thrown down at that spot, and the prisoner' s shoes when examined had some of the same kind o f gravel sticking to them. Mr. Thomas Griffiths, of Coventry-street, Havmarket, builder, said he knew the prisoner, who came into his ser vice as errand boy in August last, and left him on Tuesday week, without giving any notice. He was much alarme d on missing him, and made every inquiry, but was unable to discover where he had gone to until lie saw in the papers an account of a boy answering his description having been found in the Palace. He then went to Tothill-fiel ds Bridewell. and identified the prison er . Hi s nam e was n( 4 Edward Cotton, but Edward Jones. His age was sixteen. Prisoner had often told witness that he would go to the Palace to see the grand staircase. Mr. WHITE inquired what the prisoner had to say Prisoner—l wished to see the Palace. It wAs curiosity took me there, and I went in at the entrance of the left wing, the one called the tradesmen's entrance. I went in behind a man dressed in fustian, about six o'clock on Tues day evening, and ranged over the Palace without molests" tion, until I was taken into custody. Mr. WHITE—Why did you meddle with those articles? Prisoner—l don't know anything about them. Mr. WHITE—Nor the money that was found in S our pocket ? Prisoner—That I picked up with the other things on the lawn. Mr. WHITE—I am going to send you for trial. Prisoner (composedly)—Well. The whole of the parties were then bound over to prose' cute the prisoner for the f e l on y a t th e nex t Westrnins te Sessions. The prisoner heard the whole of the proceedings w ith the greatest sang froid. The prisoner is the son o f a p oor t a il or , w h o has a fern ) ; of seven children. We un d ers t an d th a t th ere i s n o previo us imputation against the boy's character . THE MARKETS. Per Ton. K ET.— Dec. 19. Fon COAL MAR a. 0. Adair's l9 6 Baker's Main ..... flensham Burdon Bute's Tanfield Moor 22 6 Dcrwent Main lB - 9 Garesnld l9 6 Leaze's Main i•rd's Redhugh Pontop Windsor 22 3 South Beaumont lB 01 fanSeld Moor 2-1 6 West Hartley 22. 0 Willington ylam 22 6 Walls End Bewicke and Co 24 0 Walls End Clark and Ca 20 0 Walls End Goforth 24 0 Walls End Grace.....~ Ships arrived since 1 7 1 I COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURIN 7 ei Walls End Heaton ...........«•• ;;—„ , • Walls End Riddell's .......... ,z; Walls End Braddyll's Hetton 0 Walls End Haswell ............ 3 Wails End Hetton ............... 3 Walls End Lainbt.ti ........... Walls End Russel's Hetton.. 4 Walls End Stewart's... ....... . Walls End Whitwell ............ f, 6 Walls End Hart1ep001.......... Z 0 Walls End Butterknowl ..... 0 Walls End Adelaide... ...•••• Walls End Cragwood. .......... 2g g Walls End South Durham..... g ',ails End 'Fels ............... -• • .41 Walls End Victoria Tees Walls End West Tees Walls:End West Hettoll 0 Blythe l7 act market-day, S. G THE WEEK Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. Beans. Pe ase. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. .3. to S. s. t ° Abingdon 64 80 30 34 22 30 38 Andover- 74 82 29 31 125 43 8irmingham,...,,.,.,, 63 80 30 40 16 22 33 Bridport 73 80 32 36 '26 30 39 Cirencester 61 81 27 32 '2O 25 32 40 Faringdon w 65 80 26 30 26 30 Guildford 68 80 28 35 20 30 4g Henley 72 78 26 32 23 26 43 4 6 Hereford 63 88 26 32 22 29 46 Highworth 61 70 32 42 28 34 38 Maidenhead 63 75 24 30 20 20 34 44 '" Monmouth,.... .. 64 74 32 34 22 29 34 4 0 „,""'" •••• Reading 64 75 25 35 20 27 33 42 0 ." Salisbury 64 74 30 34 20 41 46 -"'" Southampton ..—.. 63 75 33 40 28 32 42 Stroud - Tewkesbury 81 35 22 3 0 40 ""- 48 Uxbridge .. 70 74 28 32 17 28 40 49 Wantagew.... 63 72 24 34 20 25 33 42 03 Warminster 67 70 27 34 22 26 36 40 76 21 22 35 -- , f A 49 Worcester 65 70 32 36 30 32 46 CHELTENHAM MARKETS. t' ld. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d,' Pet lb. • 9 Wheat 7 f 9 tlarley 3 9 49 , Mutton Oats 2 9 40; Veal CHELTENHAM . Per Bushel. s. d. to 5.d.,. Wheat tSarley 3 9 49 , Mu'ion Oats 2 9 40 ; Veal Beans ['case Hay 3/.los. to 4/. 4s. Isd. per ton. HULL MARKET.—Dec. 18. n 76 8, Wheat, Old 635. 76 8 . SOs New 63s. 7 ,4 Foreign -5. --s --. In bond... -8. -"s Z.'S- ~--... 4. - 4 ' Oats, Poland —s. 20s. 225. O ld -8' Z 208- Small or Feed.... —s. 17s. 18s. --s. Foreign Barley, Norf. & Suf _ A . -- Foreign - s -- *. • %we 30 3 . Beans 36s ••••• 38s. 425. Foreign 265. r ~Qs os. Pease, White.... 365. 365. 40s. Grey 26 3 . ~,, • ., ...„, s . Tares ,„ 3Bs. 4 Is. 42s Foreign —s. -- 8 • Rapeseed. In bond none . Free, per last 231. 0 8 . ~s LADIES' FINE GOLD NECK-CHA„i 0 01, A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, No. 9, ‘-'_! : ', t , of London (opposite the Bank of England), offer a large " 111 ` , i ; A ble Ladies' Fine Gold Neck. Chains, of the matted, ring, a n .„cord' patterns, a yard and a quarter long, at the following prices, "-- . ing to the weight : kg S„ i sovereigns 9 v 0 The weight of 3 sovereigns... £4 4 0 The weight of 7 sovere The weight of 4 sovereigns... 5 5 0 Th e we i g h t o f 8 sover eigns 10 lii • The weight of 5 sovereigns... 66 1 The weight of 9 sovereign s jI 11 _, The weight of 6 sovereigns... 77 0 The weight of 10 sovereign , , Taw The most elegant spangled, s t ar , an d f ancy li n k pa tterns, " Guineas more than their respective weights. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, N o. 9 , C orn hill, Lanc_22l: - - - • PATENT LEVER WA TC With silver double-b o tt om cases 6 With silver hunting cases _ w hich a This celebrated construction (the most accurate on - mo m watch can be made) is offered, with the latest improic,„„gcl, e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four hole' , c Vogl' hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintaining P to continue going while winding up, at the above price, by T. COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, Silver an d G o ld sm ith, 47, C o rnhill, Lon -an (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street)• ehande, N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in B IR THS. f g e nii On the 11th inst., at Wismar, Mecklenburgh, Marty, jun., Esq., his Danish Majesty's Consul at that of a son. c, n or Ems" On the 16th inst., at Norwich, the lady of John of Rollesbv Hall, Norfolk, of a daughter. Fairlie, On the 17th inst., at Wakehurst Park, the lady of John EN., of a son. the lady °f place, MARRIED. On the 18th inst., at Lambeth, John Vaizev, Esq. of GraY rf inn, to Anne, youngest daughter of Probertßousfield, Esq" Kennington. r'sq " to On the 11th inst. at Rye, Sussex, Thomas Jen ner, Eliza, only daughter of Thos. Proctor, Esq., of DIED. On the 13th inst., in York-street, Portman-square, t h e infant son of Charles Plowden, Esq. be, John For On the 14th inst., at Tonbridge Wells, aged 85, _ _ Esq., of Waterton. _ Esq'' On the 15th inst., Elizabeth, wife of Richard Hickman, of Old Swinford, Worcestershire. On the 15th inst., at Connaught-terrace, Hannah, relict of th e late Robert Fleetwood, Esq. Elisabeth On the 15th inst., at Manor-place, Walworth, Mrs. Taylor, aged 78. On the 17th inst., at Goudhurst, Kent, Richard Pack, E s q.' of Flore House, Northamptonshire, aged 70. On the 17th inst., Henry,a two ears son of Mr. George of Gracechurch-street,and nine months. ged yeaTs wife If. B ar ' On the 17th • t ins ~ at Putney Elizabeth, of G. , nett, Esq. of On the 18th inst., Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Richard Alltn' Surrey-square, Old Kent-road, aged 51. cr 5 0° On the 18th inst., aged 21, Francis Miles, eldest surviving of Mr. J. N. Gibbins, of Rathbone-place, Oxford-street. , On the 18th inst., Mrs. Schofield, of Charles-street, City-r° aged 74. •• bet b On the 15th inst., at Manor-place, Walworth, Mrs. Ellza Taylor, aged 78. Weo t.. On the 15th inst., Mrs. Watts, of Great Smith-stree t, minster, aged 75. 'glean ° On the 17th inst., in Green-street, Grosvenor-square, Mary, the wife of the Hon. Colonel J. C. Westenra. aged , t he Ritchie, On the 17th inst., at the Vicarage, Edmonton, u'' Rev. Dawson Warren, M.A. i _ r ickr On the 13th inst.. aged two years and three mon ths, Fret, second son of Mr. Edward Purser, of New Bridge-stres London: Printed and Published by MURDO SOUNG 112, Strand, at Th 4 Sun Offiso, No. 112, Swami , is the you of Middlesex.—Thursiity, pecbratstr 20, 11," THE SPY IN THE QUEEN'S HOUSE. Edward Jones, otherwise Edward Cotton, was yesterdaY placed at the bar of Queen-square Police-office for re-ev amination, charged with having been found in Buckingham Palace, and stealing therein a sword and divers other articles, the property of the Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, Master of her Majesty's Household. The boy's appearance when placed in the dock was very different from that exhibited by him on the former occasion. The whole of the soot and grease with which he bad, daubed himself h a d b een was h e d o ff, s h ow i ng an o pen and intelligent countenance. Fr:deric Blume, a German, valet to the Honourable Charles Augustus Murray, having been sworn, was asked several questions, to which he gave such vague replies as to go for nothing against the lad. W. Badcock, 5S A, said that on Friday morning, about eight o'clock, he was called from the tradesmen's to the equerry's entrance by a constable of the B division. He found the property which had been contained in the port manteau, together with the sword, lying close to the door of the gentleman porter's hall. After the prisoner's ar prehension he searched him, and found on him a small pad lock, with a piece of tin attached, which lock he bad com pared with the tin case, and it corresponded. He also found four foreign coins of the same description as those taken out of the valet's drawer.